Majority seem gripped by inexplicable selfishness

Please tell me I read this wrong: The Massachusetts voters who sent Scott Brown to Washington to kill health care reform approve of the Massachusetts bill on which the federal bill is based?

Please tell me I read this wrong: The Massachusetts voters who sent Scott Brown to Washington to kill health care reform approve of the Massachusetts bill on which the federal bill is based?

Of course, that's consistent with Brown's own position — supporting it in Massachusetts but not on the national level. And your own editorial board pleads editorially not to let health care reform die and then endorses "41." Amazing.

This isn't just stupidity. It's selfishness. We're OK here in Massachusetts, but it would be "too expensive" to care for our fellow citizens.

I should be glad that those opposed to the health care bill are finally being honest. I've always known that their position can be summarized something like this: "I'm OK and I am arrogant enough to think that I will never lose my job or have my insurance canceled, so why should I care about other people? If they can't afford it, they can just do without." Too bad congressional Republicans don't state their position that honestly.